Due November 2009 - Remember, remember we're due in November, but not yet quite ready to pop!

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Hope everyone can find us!

Koumak dd: 28th Oct, 35
Ursigurke dd: 31st Oct, 34+3
Wook dd: 31st Oct, 34+3
Broodzilla dd: 2nd Nov, 34+1
Fruitpastels dd: 4th Nov, 33+6
Lemontop dd: 5th Nov 33+5
Tamlin dd: 5th Nov, 33+5
Scarlotti dd: 6th Nov, 33+4
Hobnob dd: 6th Nov, 33+4
Trikken dd: 6th Nov, 33+4
Eeyore2 dd: 8th Nov, 33+2
Wizzywoo dd: 8th Nov, 33+2
Helips dd: 9th Nov, 33+1
SleeplessintheCity dd: 9th Nov 33+1
Kyte dd: 10th Nov, 32+1
Maman2tom dd: 11th Nov 34+1
Weston dd: 13th Nov, 32+5
Becky dd: 14th Nov, 32+3
Tigger dd: 14th Nov 32+3
Southernbelle77 dd: 14th Nov 32+3
ErikaMaye dd: 16th Nov, 32+2
Easyeggs dd: 17th Nov, 32
PavlovtheForgetfulCat dd: 18 Nov, 32
Belgianbun dd: 20th Nov, 31+5
LissyGlitter dd: 22nd Nov, 31+2
Ninjacat dd: End Nov
MumsieBumsie dd: 26th Nov, 30+5
Laugs dd: 26th Nov, 30+5
skorpion dd: 29th Nov, 30+2
claired21 dd: 29th Nov, 30+2
raggie dd: 30th Nov, 30+1

I can't sleep and am sooooo exhausted..i can barely walk up and down the stairs. I think this virus thing has knocked me out.

Think I will do the whole sorting thing next week.. Do you think DD will get it?.. I keep reading Miffy and the baby to her and she seems to know there is a baby in the tummy but not sure it's really going in. I draw lots of pics of the family as it will be and she doesn't seem that putt off...

I am in awe of those still working! I worked till 36 weeks with DD and don't know how I managed!

laugs you are right..not long to go now. Just booked flights for all grandparents who are taking shifts to look after dd around the due date..it seems more real now..Looking forward to meeting the slug bug inside but taking advantage of time alone with dd now..

EasyEggs Paracetamol are fine (just not 'brufen). You can take 2 every 4hrs but try not to take more than three doses in a day (ie 6 tablets)

Sorry to hear about the stress. Are you having to deal with Cafcass?

Keep strong

Thanks Ninja - will be heading to the medicine cupboard asap!!

Don't think I am as I have no idea who CAFFCAS are???

Although solicitor and Victim Liason Officer are doing all the real work so I'm not sure?

Easyeggs Awww, bless you. Not sure about the paracetamol - could you give your nearest pharmacy a ring? For what it's worth, I had a quick google and the NHS website says to take it at the "lowest possible dose for the shortest possible time" as if that's any help... Maybe take just one (most people seem to pop two at a time) and hopefully that'll do the trick? Then take the next one when you really, really need it rather than the usual 4 hours?

Hopefully things with solicitors/ ex H will calm down soon - you may find you'll feel better all around then? I often feel physically ill when I'm stressed out.

Laugs Forgot to say that I loved that dream of yours - wonder if it's some kind of unconscious fear of how we'll cope? (I dreamt that I sent the baby off home with my dad and went back in to the place where I'd given birth to say goodbye to people... and was then horrified to discover they were all saying "what kind of a mother ARE you?" also, when I got home I'd made the baby sleep on cushions on the floor rather than setting up his hammock. )

Time for a PB&J sandwich!

Easyeggs what a rough time you are having! Hope both the cold and ex problem go away soon!

Scarlotti as a second time mother I fee a little bit cheated too as only seeing mw every 4 weeks, so I have booked GP in between. No growth scan offered either only if I go a week over due date to book the induction really!

Also now exactly what you mean with the travel. I take the tube every day although I have changed my hours so I now come in at 8 and finish 4.30 really to avoid the rush hour. But some people are just so rude!

I just realised that I forgot to pack the camera, socks, tissues and water into my MAIN bag! Will repack tonight or tomorrow or at weekend?. When I am not in bed at 8pm!

Wook - don't watch Control!!! I watched it in very early pregnancy when I didn't actually know I was pregnant and it was fantastic but so so depressing. I cried so much! Would recommend putting it off until no longer pregnant and hormonal! Great music though.

FEEL. I know how you feel!

KNOW. I know what you mean!

I should really preview before posting

broodzilla yeah I think it's our brains preparing us for the new responsibility!

Actually, just remembered that it got a whole lot weirder when DD was born. eg. If I was carrying a hammer, I'd have this sudden flash image that the hammer might fly out of my hand and hit DD who was asleep across the room. Or that I would have to think to myself 'don't hit her with it'. Of course I had no desire to hit her with it, but it's like your brain is so overwhelmed by the responsibility that it keeps checking up on you and racing through everything that could go wrong (a bit like when you're waiting for a train and you have to remind yourself not to jump onto the platform, but you never wanted to jump on the platform in the first place).

I looked it up and apparently it's quite a normal side-effect of becoming a new mum and I'm not a psycho, honest.

Afternoon all,

Sorry to hear you are still feeling unwell easyeggs when I had flu the doctor told me I should take the maximum dose of 2 paracetamol every 4 hours, maximum 8 tablets in 24 hours but if you are unsure speak to your midwife or give the gp a quick ring. Anyway, hope you feel better soon.

I've been having really weird dreams this week, all involving children and nasty accidents, it's quite upsetting. Don't remember having these dreams when pregnant with ds although most of my dreams involve toddlers rather than babies so wonder if subconcously (sorry about sp!) I am worried how ds will react to the new baby?

Dh is off on a stag do tomorrow to Las Vegas. All right for some! He's not back till Monday so hopefully I won't go in to labour early! I've got my lovely sil staying to keep me company and help with ds but even so will miss dh.

I've just had a weird, sad thought: this is the last time I'll ever be pregnant. This being my third one is definitely my final one. For all the aches and pains, nausea, indigestion there are all the joys such as feeling the little thing squirm around, getting lots of attention from strangers, feeling special, that warm maternal feeling knowing you are creating life. I will miss those bits. Never again!

Laugs, I had the same thing after DS was born - kept having these mad thoughts like 'What if I dropped him down the stairs?' It's not that I WANTED to do it, but it was as if my brain kept cycling madly through the worst things that could happen to him.

Incidentally, I read 'The Time Traveller's Wife' in the first weeks after DS's birth, and I was such a hormonal wreck that I think I wept solidly and constantly through the final third of it. DH kept trying to confiscate it.

BBL, you left out the best bit of being pregnant - letting your tummy hang out on the beach! I know it's very trivial and shallow of me, but I'm not looking forward to going from swinging this my vast belly around happily to squinting down at the saggy postpartum tyre spilling over my trousers and thinking 'Hum, I'm probably supposed to DO something about that eventually...'

Afternoon folks!

Hope there's room for another Mum+bump?

have been lurking around a few message boards for the last few months but now I've discovered mumsnet I think I've come home!

Very much looking forward to sharing the next number of weeks and months with you all - I'm almost 34 weeks, and to be honest I've been very lucky - only really starting to struggle in the 3rd trimester.

Have a scan on Monday to check on bub's size and position - breech at the mo but still lots of time!!

Anyway I'll stop waffling, add myself to the list and try to catch up on my MN reading!

Koumak dd: 28th Oct, 35
Ursigurke dd: 31st Oct, 34+3
Wook dd: 31st Oct, 34+3
Broodzilla dd: 2nd Nov, 34+1
Fruitpastels dd: 4th Nov, 33+6
Lemontop dd: 5th Nov 33+5
Tamlin dd: 5th Nov, 33+5
Scarlotti dd: 6th Nov, 33+4
Hobnob dd: 6th Nov, 33+4
Trikken dd: 6th Nov, 33+4
Fubble dd: 6th Nov, 33+4
Eeyore2 dd: 8th Nov, 33+2
Wizzywoo dd: 8th Nov, 33+2
Helips dd: 9th Nov, 33+1
SleeplessintheCity dd: 9th Nov 33+1
Kyte dd: 10th Nov, 32+1
Maman2tom dd: 11th Nov 34+1
Weston dd: 13th Nov, 32+5
Becky dd: 14th Nov, 32+3
Tigger dd: 14th Nov 32+3
Southernbelle77 dd: 14th Nov 32+3
ErikaMaye dd: 16th Nov, 32+2
Easyeggs dd: 17th Nov, 32
PavlovtheForgetfulCat dd: 18 Nov, 32
Belgianbun dd: 20th Nov, 31+5
LissyGlitter dd: 22nd Nov, 31+2
Ninjacat dd: End Nov
MumsieBumsie dd: 26th Nov, 30+5
Laugs dd: 26th Nov, 30+5
skorpion dd: 29th Nov, 30+2
claired21 dd: 29th Nov, 30+2
raggie dd: 30th Nov, 30+1

Welcome fubble! Is this your first? Do you know what you're having? MN is great, the more the merrier!

easyeggs sorry you're feeling miserable. Hopefully all this ex stuff will get sorted out soon and as pain-free as possible.

becky I already think I'll miss the squirming. I think I'm really lucky with this pregnancy lark - just started to notice being less mobile, heavier and more uncomfortable in the last trimester. So far I've really enjoyed it. But it must be better to have three little monkeys running around, no? Just think of that instead and don't feel sad.

sleepless - get better soon.

Curious to hear the stories about the mind thinking up dangerous scenarios... I suffer from vertigo and my fil put it very well: it's not the height itself but the urge to jump that is scary. And I can't even blame that on pg brain as I've had it for years - one of my recurring nightmares.

LO is really active today - moving around for past few hours. It's always middle of day and evening with her. I read that this is the time they develop patterns of sleep and no sleep. Seems to be about right.

I'm seriously considering changing my office chair for a ball from the work gym. It's getting more and more uncomfortable to sit at the desk for so many hours at a time.

Hello fubble, come and join the fun

becky I had that very same thought last night. This is only DC 2 and I am only 28, so I suppose it doesn't have to be that way, but I've only ever imagined having 2 children and I think this will probably be the last. I think when the baby is born I will probably get upset about the last time that things will happen too: the last breastfeed, the last first tooth and so on. I'm getting all sad now thinking about it!

ursi One of the women at DD's nursery is German, so they sometimes have little German lessons. She came home today singing Mein Hut der hat drei Ecken. Her accent is so much better than mine

Hey all, just a quick post before i catch up on posts then sleep some!

Last day at work today. YEY! I went in feeling terrible, had a little presentation which I was so not in the mood for, but got some little gifts for baby which was nice. Then snuck off at 1pm!

Had scan. Baby has moved from being in correct position to being in breech - he is currently bouncing up and down on his feet using my cervix as a trampoline! He is approx 4lbs already . He is growing fine, clearly! They said there is time for him to turn yet though, so best get the exericses going - i knew he had turned, what with all the acitivities going on in there!

The UTI I have - I have proteins in water - due to the UTI, sugar in water - probably due to the coke I drank beforehand and ketones in water - probably due to throwing up. Been told that had the GP done already diagnosed me and just waiting for test results, they would have admitted me, also, as ketones are (+++) they would have admitted me if I had thrown up today (which I almost did just before going in!). so luckily, I managed to stay out of hospital! Not feeling great, but waiting for antibiotics to kick in.

Hope all is well with everyone and I will read and respond to as many posts as I can later xx

Tamlin that's so funny because I read the Time Traveller's Wife in the first weeks after DS2 was born and I LOVED it probably because I was a hormonal wreck too. I remember looking forward to him falling asleep so I could pick it up and read a bit! I've just ordered her next book off amazon and I am going to pack it in my hospital bag and have it as my special treat for when the baby is born

That reminds me, this might make some of you laugh, for some reason I thought I'd have loads of time to read when in hospital after having DS1 and I took War and Peace with me. I didn't even open it! I still haven't read it.

Laugs on weird post natal thoughts I remember the first day I took ds out in the pram I was really scared: the world seemed sooooo much noisier and more dangerous than I remembered it and things seemed to be looming at us in all directions. There seemed to be cars and dogs everywhere and I was quite convinced that either I would accidentally walk in front of a car or that a dog would somehow jump right into the pram and savage ds. Shudder! Made it as far as the park and back though.

It's hardly surprising the brain does strange things to a new mum- it is really very frightening when you have this new baby who depends totally on you for life. I definitely wondered at some moments if I was up to the job.

Tamlin you have bought back another memory- when I got down off the delivery bed to go to the ward and where I had once had a proud, beautiful, smooth, firm bump there was a kind of rapidly deflating wobbly balloon instead. Oh dear!

Welcome fubble come and join in the fun!

Went for a quick snooze today at about 1ish ... cue 2.5 hours later when I woke up! Trip to London obviously took it out of me - what a wuss Only problem now will be come 10pm I won't feel like going to bed.

BBL this is most definitely my last too, so much so I've even had the sterilisation chat with the GP at my 31 week appt!! I had a twinge of about it the other day thinking no more babies, but this pg has been so much more uncomfortable than my others that I'll be glad to see it end tbh.
As with tamlin I've started to think about the bulge that will be left behind but it's almost an excited feeling to think that soon I'll have my body back and can get fit again.
I didn't do enough after DS was born so am started from a bigger size this time than I should have. Am determined after this one to get back into shape.

I'll enjoy every minute of this baby though and will probably mourn the passing of each phase ... whilst hopefully rejoicing at being in control of my own body again and getting some sort of figure back.
Remind me of this motivation won't you when I'm heading back to work after mat leave and am still a flobbly post partum mess!!!

just had a 32 week growth scan and apparently i don't need to buy any low weight babygro's...nothing too alarming, said it was just going to be a 'good size' baby...measuring 34 weeks..6llbs already....aslong as its a small head...

but as it was fat club clinic..those with high bmi's...i still blame wearing my uggs for tipping me in the wrong direction...some tall leggy blonde signed me up for some health eating/exericse thing they have introduced...oh yes just what i need to be thinking about!! quality street tin £5 at asda anyone..

Weston snap! Your baby is bigger than mine - but the head circ was enormous it was at the top of the scame does that mean it will hurt?

hurt pavlov def not it will just slip out....

kyte Dh said he thinks a CS would be best, easier all round he said . Like he knows best or something .

Can I change my mind and ask baby to stay there .

I have a blood test first thing tomorrow for gestational diabetes. Not looking forward to two buses and getting lost in the hospital after having no breakfast, and then the possibility of being banned from eating cakes...

What goes on at these tests? Am I right in thinking it somehow involves lucozade? Should I wear something with easy belly access in case they need to have a feel of the baby or is it just all about getting to my arm for the blood? Should I take a picnic to eat as soon as they say I can? Can I have gaviscon when I'm fasting? Should I take DP, or can he be left in front of cbeebies with DD?

I should have probably thought of these questions before the unit shut for the evening...